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Ten times completely useless coffee knowledge
Why was coffee also called the “wine of Islam”? Why was the inventor of the espresso machine accused of mixing soap with coffee? Ten facts about the Germans’ favorite hot drink.
Coffee bushes 18 meters high
An estimated 15 billion coffee trees grow on all coffee plantations together. Uncut, each of them would be about 18 meters high. In order to be able to harvest them more easily, they are trimmed to three meters. Raising them requires staying power: a coffee tree only bears the first cherries after four years. He lives about 25 years and brings about a pound of coffee a year.